Gavin Newsom: “He's quite literally running an extortion racket. And not…”

“And I set it up there. It's not about the rule of law anymore. It's the rule of dawn. He's picking and choosing, deciding which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. And not just with universities like UCLA and others in California, but he's doing it with law firms, he's doing it with media organizations, he's doing it with some of the most well heeled and powerful corporate leaders. You're seeing state capitalism, not just crony capitalism. There's the one thing everything has in common, the tariffs. The tariffs for him are about leverage and about the game that he's advancing.” (09:00–09:16)

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